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Song of the Earth
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | about 4 hours ago
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A century after abstraction supplanted the mimetic (i.e. realistic) basis of representational art, and fifty years after the advent of an increasingly pervasive media counter-reality, the idea of representing nature seems almost hopelessly anachronistic...
Tags: Oliver DiCicco, Earth Engines, Berkeley, Trylon and Perisphere, Harry Partch, Whale, Hospitality Recreation, Purism, Scrapbooking, Arts and crafts
Object Lesson #38
New Haven :: CT :: USA | about 16 hours ago
Credibility A more benign version of the creature inside of which Pinocchio finds his father sitting at a dinner table, it turned the often fraught encounter between nature and culture into an image of domestic comfort. There really should be some permanent dry aquarium...
Tags: New Haven, Permalink, Fat, Jemma, Whale, Stephen V. Kobasa, Hospitality Recreation, Pinocchio, Aquarium
Sea Shepherd blasts Rudd's whaling stance
Sydney :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility Captain Paul Watson and his vessel Steve Irwin are in Fremantle and due to depart for the Southern Ocean this weekend. The group has added a new high speed boat to its fleet and hopes it will be able to reduce the number of whales caught by Japanese vessels...
Tags: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, rudd government, Australia, Sydney, Environment, Economy of Iceland, Politics, Animal rights movement, Whale, Cetaceans, International Whaling Commission, Economy of Japan, Whaling
Whale of a time follows after reading tragic story
Nantucket :: MA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility While sailing the Sea of Cortez, waiting for sperm whales to appear, I read "In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex." This book by Nathaniel Philbrick gives a contemporary version of what happened when a male sperm whale, judged by...
Tags: sperm whale, Whaleship Essex, whale ship, feet long, Nathaniel Philbrick, Sea of Cortez, Nantucket, Moby-Dick, Whale, Megafauna, Essex, Cetaceans, Whaling, Sperm whales
2 stranded whales near death on Bali beach
Bali :: Cameroon | 2 days ago
Credibility Two young whales are stranded on Indonesia's resort island of Bali and will die on the beach because they are too weak to survive even if returned to the water, an official said Sunday. Attempts to rescue the beached whales, a rare occurrence on Bali,...
Tags: Bali, Nyoman Wirna Ariwangsa, Cameroon, Environment, Pilot whale, Oceanic dolphins, Megafauna, Whale, Beached whale, Cetaceans, Whaling
The cautionary tale of The Whale | SE Smith
Fort Bragg :: NC :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility The cautionary tale of The Whale The killing of a blue whale by a research vessel off the Californian coast raises larger questions about marine protection The blue whale is an endangered species. Photograph: Christopher Swann/SplashdownDirect/Rex Features...
Tags: Pacific Star, blue whale, research vessel, California, Fort Bragg, Environment, Whale watching, Whale, Baleen whales, Cetaceans, Killer Whale
New England Aquarium names 'Palmetto' whale
Harleston :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility S.C. — A huge right whale with a distinctive white knob on her head that shows up off the South Carolina coast every few years now has an official name, "Palmetto." The Post and Courier of Charleston reported Friday that the New England Aquarium has granted...
Tags: New England Aquarium, South Carolina, United Kingdom, Harleston, Balaenidae, Education, Megafauna, Whale, Charleston South Carolina, Right whale
Anti-whalers swimming in hypocrisy
Tōkyō :: Japan | 5 days ago
Credibility You can't blame Japan for ignoring lectures from the selectively caring. I F YOU are as vehemently opposed to whaling as most Australians, here's a potentially inconvenient truth to consider: some species of whale might not be endangered.
Tags: Japan, Tōkyō, Economy of Iceland, Whale, Baleen whales, Cetaceans, International Whaling Commission, Economy of Japan, Whaling, Whaling in Iceland
Whales save seal from orcas
London :: United Kingdom | 6 days ago
Credibility There are plenty of stories of cetaceans saving humans. Indeed, Jonah was rescued by a whale when he was thrown overboard, and there have been tales of dolphins assisting swimmers in distress or shielding them from circling sharks.
Tags: killer whale, Robert L Pitman, United Kingdom, London, Environment, Humpback Whale, Toothed whale, Oceanic dolphins, Megafauna, Marine mammals, Whale, Cetaceans
Space-age scanners show how whale's hearing is affected
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | 6 days ago
Credibility The scans are providing detailed 3-D replicas of a whale's hearing anatomy using a breakthrough method developed by Ted Cranford, marine biologist sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Chief of Naval Operations Environmental Readiness...
Tags: age scanners, Ted Cranford, India, Thiruvananthapuram, Bottlenose dolphin, Office of Naval Research, Oceanic dolphins, Marine mammals, Whale, Cetaceans, Dolphin, Technology Internet
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